1868 - 1899 Private executions.  
In the period from January 1868 to December 1899, 988 people were condemned to death of whom 454 were executed,
446 in private and 8 in public prior to abolition of public executions by the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill
passed by Parliament on the 29th of May 1868.  
The total in private comprises 424 men and 22 women all hanged for murder.
Date hanged Name of criminal Age County Place Victim details
1868 - 3 private executions.
13/08/1868 Thomas Wells 18 Kent Maidstone   Edward Walshe (Stationmaster)
08/09/1868 Alexander Mackay 19 London & Middlesex Newgate   Emma Goldsmith, his employer
28/12/1868 Priscilla Biggadyke 29 Lincolnshire Lincoln Husband
1869 - 10 executions.
18/01/1869 Martin Vinall 22 Sussex Lewes David Baldey
22/03/1869 John Donlan 37 Durham Durham Hugh Ward
22/03/1869 John M'Conville 23 Durham Durham Philip Trainer
29/03/1869 Michael Johnson 20 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Patrick Nurney
20/04/1869 William Sheward 57 Norfolk Norwich City jail Murder of wife  in 1851
12/08/1869 Jonah Dethridge 24 Dorset Dorchester James Trevett (warder)
06/09/1869 William Dixon Hampshire Winchester Cpl. Brett
11/10/1869 William Taylor 24 Devon Exeter Cpl. Arthur Skullen
15/11/1869 Joseph Welsh 42 Kent Maidstone. John Abrahams
13/12/1869 Frederick Hinson 32 London & Middlesex Newgate   Wife
1870 - 7 executions.
10/01/1870 John Gregson Lancashire Liverpool (Kirkdale) Wife
28/03/1870 William Mobbs 19 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Boy aged 9
01/08/1870 Walter Miller 31 London & Middlesex Newgate   Rev. Elias Huelin
08/08/1870 John Owen 38 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Emanuel Marshall + 6 others in family
15/08/1870 Thomas Radcliffe 26 Dorset Dorchester Edward Bly
11/10/1870 Margaret Walters 35 Surrey Horsemonger Lane Baby farmer
26/12/1870 Patrick Durr 42 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Wife
1871 - 3 executions.
03/04/1871 William Bull 21 Bedfordshire Bedford   Sally Marshall
24/04/1871 Michael Campbell 28 Essex Chelmsford Samuel Galloway
31/07/1871 Richard Addington 38 Northamptonshire Northampton Wife
1872 - 11 executions.
08/01/1872 Frederick Jones 20 Gloucestershire Gloucester Emily Gardner - girlfriend
18/03/1872 Edward Roberts 35 Oxfordshire Oxford Ann Merrick
01/04/1872 Frederick William Horry 28 Lincolnshire Lincoln Wife, Jane
12/08/1872 Charles Holmes Worcestershire Worcester Wife
12/08/1872 Christopher Edwards 34 Staffordshire Stafford Wife
13/08/1872 James Tooth 42 Kent Maidstone George Stock
" Francis Bradford 19 " " Daniel Donohue
" Thomas Moore 52 " " Wife
26/08/1872 William Lace 43 Somerset Taunton Wife
09/12/1872 August Elliott 31 London & Middlesex Newgate   Ellen Moore (prostitute)
30/12/1872 Michael Kennedy 58 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Wife 
1873 - 8 executions.
07/01/1873 Edward Hancock 50 Warwickshire Warwick Elizabeth Horton
08/01/1873 Richard Spencer 60 Lancashire Liverpool Wife
13/01/1873 Hugh Slane & John Hayes 22/29 Durham Durham Joseph Waine
24/03/1873 Mary Ann Cotton 40 Durham Durham Charles Edward Cotton
04/08/1873 Henry Evans 45 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Wife
04/08/1873 Benjamin Hudson 24 Derbyshire Derby Wife
08/09/1873 James Conner Lancashire Liverpool James Gaffney
1874 - 19 executions.
05/01/1874 Thomas Corrigan 23 Lancashire Liverpool Matricide
05/01/1874 Charles Dawson Durham Durham Margaret Addison
05/01/1874 Edward Gough Durham Durham James Partridge
05/01/1874 William Thompson 26 Durham Durham Wife
12/01/1874 Edward Butt 22 Gloucestershire Gloucester Amelia Phillips
" Edwin Bailey & Ann Barry 32/31 " " Murder of his illegitimate child
31/03/1874 Thomas Chamberlain Northamptonshire Northampton John Newitt
25/05/1874 John Godwin 27 London & Middlesex Newgate Wife
29/06/1874 Frances Stewart (f) 48 London & Middlesex Newgate Grandson
10/08/1874 John Macdonald Devon Exeter Bridget Walsh (girlfriend)
18/08/1874 William Jackson 29 Yorkshire York Castle Murder sister
24/08/1874 James Gibbs Monmouthshire Usk Wife
31/08/1874 Mary Williams 40 Lancashire Liverpool Nicholas Manning
" Henry Flanagan 22 " " Aunt
13/10/1874 John Coppen 37 Surrey Horsemonger Lane Wife
16/11/1874 Thomas Smith Hampshire Winchester Captain Bird
28/12/1874 Hugh Daly Durham Durham Philip Burdey
29/12/1874 Robert Taylor 21 Staffordshire Stafford Mary Kidd
1875 - 22 executions.
04/01/1875 James Cranwell 59 London & Middlesex Newgate   Emma Bellamy
04/01/1875 John M'Crave & 20 Lancashire Liverpool Richard Morgan (Corner Men gang)
" Michael Mullen 17 " " "
04/01/1875 William Worthington 33 Lancashire Liverpool Wife
29/03/1875 Richard Coates Essex Chelmsford Alice Boughen (child)
30/03/1875 John Morgan 19 Kent Maidstone Joe Foulson
30/03/1875 John Stanton 22 Staffordshire Stafford Uncle
19/04/1875 Alfred Heap Lancashire Liverpool Margaret McKivert (abortion)
26/04/1875 William Hale Gloucestershire Bristol Wife
27/07/1875 Jeremiah Corkery 20 Warwickshire Warwick PC Lines
02/08/1875 William M'Hugh Durham Durham Thomas Mooney
" Michael Gillingham 22 " " John Kilcran
" Elizabeth Pearson 32 James Watson, uncle
09/08/1875 Peter Blanchard 26 Lincolnshire Lincoln Castle Louisa Hodgson
16/08/1875 William M'Cullogh 36 Lancashire Lancaster Castle William Watson lodger
" Mark Fiddler 24 " " Wife
06/09/1875 William Baker Lancashire Liverpool Charles Langan
" Edward Cooper 33 " " Edward Jones (at sea)
21/10/1875 William Smedley 50 Yorkshire Leeds Elizabeth Firth
21/12/1875 Henry Wainwright 37 London & Middlesex Newgate   Harriet Lane (mistress)
22/12/1875 John Anderson Northumberland Newcastle Wife
23/12/1875 Richard Charlton Northumberland Morpeth Wife
1876 - 21 executions.
28/03/1876 George Hunter 23 Northumberland Morpeth (last) William Woods
04/04/1876 Thomas Fordred 48 Kent Maidstone Mary Bridger (girlfriend)
10/04/1876 George Hill Hertfordshire Hertford Illegitimate son
24/04/1876 Edward Deacon Gloucestershire Bristol Wife
25/04/1876 Joseph Webber Glamorganshire Cardiff Edward Stelfox
01/05/1876 Henry Webster Norfolk Norwich Castle Wife
23/05/1876 George Kadi London & Middlesex Newgate Murder & mutiny on the "Lennie"
" Pascaler Caladis " " Murder & mutiny on the "Lennie"
" Matteo Corgalis " " Murder & mutiny on the "Lennie"
" Giovanni Caccaris " " Murder & mutiny on the "Lennie"
26/07/1876 John Williams 37 Durham Durham John Wales (brother in law)
01/08/1876 James Parris 27 Kent Maidstone William Crouch (6)
14/08/1876 William Fish 26 Lancashire Liverpool Emily Holland (7)
" Richard Thompson 22 " " John Blundell
29/08/1876 John Ebletrift London & Middlesex Newgate Wife
11/12/1876 Charles O'Donnell 57 London & Middlesex Newgate Wife
14/12/1876 Robert Browning 25 Cambridgeshire Cambridge Borough jail  Emma Rolph (15 year old prostitute)
19/12/1876 Silas Barlow Surrey Horsemonger Lane Ellen Sloper & child
19/12/1876 James Dalgleish 27 Cumberland Carlisle Sarah Wright (landlady)
20/12/1876 John Green 41 Leicestershire Leicester Wife
21/12/1876 William Flanagan 35 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Margaret Doherty
1877 - 23 executions.
02/01/1877 Isaac Marks 23 Surrey Horsemonger Lane Frederick Bernard
12/03/1877 Henry & Francis Tidbury 24/27 Berkshire Reading PC Shorter & Inspector Drewatt
26/03/1877 William Clark Lincolnshire Lincoln Castle (last) Henry Walker gamekeeper
27/03/1877 John M'Kenna 25 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Wife
02/04/1877 James Bannister Cheshire Chester Wife
03/04/1877 John Johnson 37 Yorkshire Leeds Amos Waite
17/04/1877 Frederick Baker Warwickshire Warwick Mary Saunders
31/07/1877 Henry Rogers 27 Staffordshire Stafford Wife
31/07/1877 John Starkey 28 Leicestershire Leicester Wife
13/08/1877 Henry Leigh 23 Cheshire Chester Alice Hatton (8)
14/08/1877 Caleb Smith 38 Surrey Horsemonger Lane(last) Elizabeth Osborne
21/08/1877 John Golding Lancashire Liverpool Daniel Lord
" Patrick M'Govern " " John Campbell
15/10/1877 John Lynch 26 London & Middlesex Newgate Wife
12/11/1877 Thomas Pratt London & Middlesex Newgate Elizabeth Rockington
19/11/1877 William Hassell Devon Exeter Wife
20/11/1877 Henry Marsh 50 Norfolk Norwich Castle Thomas Mays & Henry Bidwell
21/11/1877 Thomas Grey Nottinghamshire Nottingham Ann Mellor
23/11/1877 Cadwallader Jones 25 Merionethshire Dolgelley (last) Sarah Hughes (girlfriend)
27/11/1877 James Satchell, 28 Leicestershire Leicester Joseph Tugby
" John Swift & John Upton 19/32 " " Joseph Tugby
1878 - 15 executions.
04/02/1878 George Piggott 29 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Florence Galloway
11/02/1878 James Caffyn Hampshire Winchester Maria Barber
12/02/1878 James Trickett Lancashire Liverpool Wife
13/02/1878 John Brooks Nottinghamshire Nottingham Carolyn Woodhead
01/04/1878 Henry Rowles 26 Oxfordshire Oxford Mary Allen (fiancée)
15/04/1878 Vincent Walker 48 Yorkshire York Castle Lydia White
29/07/1878 Charles Revell 25 Essex Chelmsford Wife - Hester
30/07/1878 Robert Vest Durham Durham John Wallace
12/08/1878 Thomas Cholerton Nottinghamshire Nottingham Jane Smith
15/08/1878 Selina Wadge 28 Cornwall Bodmin Illegitimate son
08/10/1878 Thomas Smithers 31 Old Bailey C.C.C Wandsworth (first) Amy Judge
12/11/1878 Patrick Byrne 38 Northamptonshire Northampton Qtr. Sgt. Griffiths
18/11/1878 Joseph Garcia 21 Monmouthshire Usk 5 members of Watkins family
19/11/1878 James M'Gowan 55 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Wife
25/11/1878 Henry Gilbert 30 Huntingdon Assizes Huntingdon (last) Bastard son
1879 - 15 executions.
04/02/1879 Stephen Gambril 28 Kent Maidstone Arthur Gillow
10/02/1879 Enoch Whiston 21 Worcestershire Worcester Alfred Merredith
11/02/1879 William M'Guiness 40 Lancashire Lancaster Castle Wife
25/02/1879 Charles Peace 47 Yorkshire Leeds (Armley) PC Cock & Arthur Dyson
24/03/1879 James Simms 43 Old Bailey C.C.C Newgate Lucy Graham (prostitute)
12/05/1879 Edwin Smart 35 Gloucestershire Gloucester Lucy Derrick
20/05/1879 William Cooper 42 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Ellen Mather
26/05/1879 Catherine Churchill 55 Somerset Taunton Husband
27/05/1879 John Darcy 22 Yorkshire York Castle William Metcalfe (gamekeeper)
28/05/1879 Thomas Johnson 20 Lancashire Liverpool Eliza Parton
29/07/1879 Kate Webster 30 Old Bailey C.C.C Wandsworth    Julia Thomas (employer)
11/08/1879 Annie Tooke 40 Devon Exeter Reginald Hyde (6 mths.)
25/08/1879 James Dilley 41 London & Middlesex Newgate Bastard child
26/08/1879 John Ralph 28 Warwickshire Warwick Sarah Vernon
03/12/1879 Henry Bedingfield 46 Suffolk Ipswich Eliza Rodden
1880 - 14 executions.
05/01/1880 Charles Surety 29 London & Middlesex Newgate Child aged 2
17/02/1880 William Cassidy Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Wife
02/03/1880 Patrick Kearns &  Lancashire Liverpool Patrick Tracey (landlord)
" Hugh Burns " " "
22/03/1880 John Wingfield 34 London & Middlesex Newgate Wife Murder
10/05/1880 William Dumbleton Buckinghamshire Aylesbury (last) John Edmunds
11/05/1880 John Wood Yorkshire York Castle    John Coe
27/07/1880 Thomas Berry 37 Kent Maidstone Carolyn Adams
16/08/1880 John Wakefield 28 Derbyshire Derby Elizabeth Wilkinson (9)
16/11/1880 William Brownlees 22 Durham Durham Elizabeth Holmes
20/11/1880 Thomas Wheeler Hertfordshire St Albans Edward Anstee
22/11/1880 Joseph Distin 35 Gloucestershire Bristol Elizabeth Daniels
13/12/1880 William Herbert 44 London & Middlesex Newgate Jane Messenger
13/12/1880 George Pavey 29 Old Bailey C.C.C. Newgate Ada Shepherd (10)
1881 - 11 executions.
21/02/1881 William Stanway Cheshire Chester Ann Mellor
22/02/1881 James Williams 24 Staffordshire Stafford Elizabeth Bagnall
28/02/1881 Albert Robinson 20 Derbyshire Derby Wife
17/05/1881 Albert Moore 23 Kent Maidstone Mary Marsh
23/05/1881 James Hall 53 Yorkshire Leeds (Armley) Wife
31/05/1881 Joseph M'Entire 42 Lancashire Liverpool Wife
15/08/1881 Thomas Brown Nottinghamshire Nottingham Eliza Caldwell
23/08/1881 George Durling 36 Old Bailey C.C.C. Maidstone Fanny Mussen
21/11/1881 Alfred Gough 34 Derbyshire Derby Eleanor Windle (6)
28/11/1881 John Simpson 21 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Ann Ratcliffe (girlfriend)
29/11/1881 Percy Mapleton 22 Sussex Lewes Isaac Gold
1882 - 11 executions.
30/01/1882 Charles Gerrish 70 Wiltshire Devizes Stephen Coleman
13/02/1882 Robert Templeton 36 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Betty Scott (landlady)
28/04/1882 George Lamson 30 Old Bailey C.C.C. Wandsworth Percy Malcolm (brother in law)
16/05/1882 Thomas Fury Durham Durham Maria Fitzsimmons
22/05/1882 George Abigail 19 Norfolk Norwich Castle Mary Plunkett
23/05/1882 Osmond Brand 27 Yorkshire Leeds (Armley) William Pepper
21/08/1882 William Turner Lancashire Liverpool Wife
13/11/1882 William Bartlett 46 Cornwall Bodmin Bastard daughter
28/11/1882 Edward Wheatfil Yorkshire York Castle    Peter Hughes (16)
04/12/1882 Bernard Mullarky 19 Lancashire Liverpool Thomas Cruise
12/12/1882 Charles Taylor Surrey Wandsworth Wife
1883 - 14 executions.
02/01/1883 Louisa Jane Taylor 37 Kent Maidstone Mrs. Tregellis
12/02/1883 Abraham Thomas 24 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Christina Leigh (housekeeper)
19/02/1883 James Anderson 50 Lincolnshire Lincoln County Jail Wife
07/05/1883 Thomas Garry Lincolnshire Lincoln John Newton
08/05/1883 Patrick Carey Cheshire Chester  (last) Samuel Carlam
21/05/1883 Joseph Wedlake Somerset Taunton Mark Cox
" George White " " Wife
06/08/1883 James Burton 33 Durham Durham Wife
06/11/1883 Henry Powell 24 Surrey Wandsworth John Briston
13/11/1883 Thomas Day 31 Suffolk Ipswich Bastard child
19/11/1883 Peter Bray 32 Durham Durham Thomas Pyle
26/11/1883 Thomas Riley 55 Lancashire Mcr. (Strangeways) Elizabeth Alston
03/12/1883